Cold War Dictatorship: Racism in the German Democratic Republic

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dc.contributorVan Handle, Donnaen_US
dc.contributorFerraro, Vincenten_US
dc.contributor.advisorKing, Jeremyen_US
dc.contributor.authorStillman, Laurenen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-16T13:47:14Z
dc.date.available2011-02-16T13:47:14Z
dc.date.gradyear2006en_US
dc.date.issued2011-02-16
dc.date.submitted2006-06-04 22:07:52en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the rhetoric of East German domestic and foreign politics and how issues of race and racism were handled. It covers the time period from the early 1950s through the 1960s, while contextualizing East German politics with German politics of the Weimar and Nazi eras. Accounts of racism towards Jews, Slavs and groups from Africa, Latin America and South East Asia are examined. The thesis attempts to show that in the self-proclaimed anti-racist state of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), racism marked both domestic and foreign politics and greatly influenced the Cold War politics of East Germany. The racism that was tolerated and promoted in the early period of the GDR still influences Germany today.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipInternational Relationsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/700
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedpublic
dc.subjectGerman Democratic Republicen_US
dc.subjectCold Waren_US
dc.subjectRacismen_US
dc.titleCold War Dictatorship: Racism in the German Democratic Republicen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke Collegeen_US

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